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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Remaking Rutland with Refugees - Sonia Bailley

by Sonia Bailley

Showing
compassion to Syrian refugees who have suffered persecution at the
hands of their government by taking them in seems like the morally
correct thing to do -- but not at the expense of American
financial stability, health
security and national security

The
character of the city of Rutland, Vermont is facing major change.
Nestled in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont, it is an
unsuspecting city targeted for refugee resettlement. After being kept
in the dark since their mayor’s unilateral decision to accept 100 Syrian
and Iraqi refugees in October, Rutland citizens should investigate the
threatening impact that refugee resettlement has on their own public
security, economic stability and community health before it’s too late.

Photo courtesy Green Mountain Power

The
city of Rutland was chosen as the site to place refugees by the U.S.
Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), one of the nine major
federally-funded refugee resettlement contractors
or voluntary agencies (volags), and its local affiliated field office
or subcontractor, the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program (VRRP).
According to Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettlement Watch,
once a site is chosen for resettlement, the agency submits an annual
resettlement plan to the State Department in order to receive federal
funding of nearly $2,000 per refugee sponsored in addition to federal
grants of up to $2,200 per refugee sponsored. Refugee resettlement has
become a billion dollar industry, according to investigative journalist James Simpson, a former economist and budget examiner for the White House Office of Management and Budget.

The
VRRP has not openly disclosed its proposed resettlement abstract to
Rutland. Such abstracts list the targeted town’s available facilities
and amenities, such as subsidized housing, mental health facilities, and
public schooling, for the refugees. Exposing the contents of the
abstract prior to resettling or “seeding” refugees (a term coined by a
resettlement agency) is a cause of great concern for the agency, as it
would shake some sense into the citizens of Rutland and most likely
prevent refugee resettlement. Concerned citizens should ask for full
disclosure of the abstract now.

They
should also ask who pays for refugee resettlement and for how long.
One month after arrival, refugees are provided with taxpayer-funded
services such as Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income, Social Security
Disability Insurance, public housing assistance, child care, food
stamps, and much more, costing billions of dollars a year. However,
after a couple of months, government funding runs out, and it becomes
incumbent upon the community to take over and provide.

Showing
compassion to Syrian refugees who have suffered persecution at the
hands of their government by taking them in seems like the morally
correct thing to do -- but not at the expense of American
financial stability (national debt of nearly $20 trillion), health
security (rise in infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis, brought
in by refugees) and national security (global jihad on the rise).

Given
the rising number of Rutland’s low-income citizens in desperate need of
assistance, city officials should be leading efforts to develop ways to
take care of their own first, including war veterans, seniors, drug
addicts, and the homeless. Many refugees in the U.S. today are
supported by lifetime cash assistance programs, while Americans are
being pushed off time-limited welfare programs. According to Corcoran,
refugees are treated as U.S. citizens in that they qualify for all
federal, state, and local welfare programs after one month. This raises
the refugee resettlement costs to billions of dollars a year.

More
questions need answering. Where will the refugees work? Will
employment specialists help refugees ahead of unemployed Americans? Is
there enough public housing for refugees given the number of homeless in
any given American town? Can the school system handle multiple foreign
languages and illiterate children? Who will pay for English Language
Learner (ELL) services for refugees in public schools, or for mandated
interpreters? Will social disruption occur? And if it does, will
Rutland’s police force be ready? What happens when the town can’t
afford refugee resettlement anymore?

How
will Rutland’s health department manage, given that numerous diseases,
especially tuberculosis, are permitted entry into the U.S. via the
refugee population? Breitbart
reported Sunday that in 2015, Indiana took in almost 400 migrants with
latent (non-infectious) tuberculosis, and four refugees from the federal
refugee resettlement program with active tuberculosis. Unbeknownst to
many is that 10% of latent tuberculosis develops into infectious
tuberculosis. Dr. Jane Orient,
executive director of the Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons, criticizes the Centers for Disease Control for allowing
refugees to enter the U.S. without screening and treatment for latent
tuberculosis. Furthermore, many refugees who were treated for active
tuberculosis in their indigenous countries (paid for by U.S. taxpayer
dollars so that they could move to the U.S.) ended up with a recurrence
within two years.

Equally
important in considering refugee entry into the U.S. is insisting on
the implementation of a broader definition of Syrian refugee status by
the U.S. administration. This new all-encompassing definition should
include people who are persecuted not only by the ruling regime of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (according to the UN definition
of refugee) but by Sunni militias, such as the Islamic State and Al
Qaeda, that oppose the ruling regime. That way, federal refugee
resettlement agencies would be forced to admit not only Syrian Muslims
into the U.S., but also Syrian Christians and Yazidis who are being
massacred, forced into sexual slavery, and facing genocide in the Middle
East at the hands of the Islamic State.

Another
point to carefully consider is that almost all refugees coming to the
U.S. are chosen by the United Nations (UN), which is, in turn, highly
influenced by the powerful Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC),
the world’s largest Islamic organization consisting of 57 Islamic member
states. The OIC is also the world’s second largest intergovernmental
organization (next to the UN). It helps shape the course of
international relations and security policies in accordance with its
goal of establishing a global Islamic caliphate that subjugates the
entire world to Islamic law or sharia. This is accomplished with the
help of sharia-complaint speech codes deriving from OIC- and
Hillary-backed UN Resolution 16/18. Those speech codes are pervading
Europe and criminalizing those who criticize Islam, even when that
criticism is true -- an offense that is punishable by death in most
Islamic countries -- and are slowly creeping into America to facilitate
the Islamization of the West.

Because
no database for personal background checks exist in countries like
Syria, how can any screening process for weeding out jihadists from the
influx of Syrian (mainly Muslim) refugees granted asylum into the U.S.
be considered reliable or trustworthy? Two of the Paris bombers were smuggled into Europe with fake Syrian passports purchased in Turkey. Based on EU figures, it has been reported that four out of five migrants in Europe are not from Syria, but from Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Albania and sub-Saharan African countries such as Nigeria.

Even
if a database existed to provide solid background information on
jihadist activity, how does one screen for refugees supportive of a
global Islamic caliphate run by Islamic law or sharia, which runs
contrary to Western values and threatens the Western way of life as
jihadists do? Meanwhile, the Islamic State boasts that thousands of jihadists have been smuggled into Europe, while Lebanese Education minister, Elias Bou Saab, warns that one in 50
Syrian refugees in Europe could be an Islamic State jihadist. As the
U.S resettles more and more allegedly Syrian (mainly Muslim) refugees,
there is mounting concern over jihadists having the capability to
successfully make their way over to the U.S. to wreak havoc and
destruction.

As
Europe is handed over on a silver platter to a wave of sharia-adherent
refugees threatening European democracy and culture, isn’t it time
Americans wake up and take a lesson from their fellow Westerners? With
so much at stake, Rutland should be safeguarding its own financial,
national and medical security interests above those of others. It must
take care of its own first, or eventually face an existential crisis.